Table of Contents: February 2010

In this month's Editorial, the PLoS Medicine editors announce that they will no longer consider papers for which support in whole or in part for the study or the researchers comes from a tobacco company. As a medical journal, this policy is important for two reasons, say the editors: First, tobacco is indisputably bad for health. And second, the editors remain concerned about the tobacco industry's long-standing and well-documented attempts to distort the science of and deflect attention away from the harmful effects of smoking.